Twelve years ago today I started working at IBM. It was the only day I ever wore a tie to work (besides the one day where I had to go to a wedding right after work and I won't count that). My first workstation was an AIX RS/6000 300 MHz (we didn't start getting Windows PCs until a few years later, and not laptops until about 6 years ago - and I STILL have the same P200 model of monitor that they gave everyone 12 years ago!)
To recap 12 years - I have had 6 managers (actually quite a low number for 12 years), worked in 4 different departments, 2 different areas, and 2 different divisions. I've only had 3 different desks (that's an amazingly low number for 12 years compared to most people), and have had 2 promotions. The manager who hired me is now a 3rd line manager of an entire group. When I started in 1997, it was the middle of the .com boom, and my starting salary was raised 3 times between when I got hired and the day I actually started, because the industry was so competitive on hiring then (man do we miss those days...). I can't really count all the projects I've worked on, but they range from doing machine-level AS/400 programming to Websphere application development.
Honestly though, not a ton has changed in 12 years here. Sure, technology has changed rapidly - it's the industry I'm in. Some buildings have been remodeled, we've sold parts of the business off, bought some others. There's now a Target and a whole bunch of other stuff on 41st street in the area that use to be just an empty field owned by IBM. There's a frontage road that cuts through the site now. But all in all, it's still IBM.
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